G/SPS/N/UGA/195  
 
29 June 2022  
(22-5036) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  Other (HS code(s): 071390); Cereals, pulses and derived products 
(ICS code(s): 67.060)  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  DUS DARS 870: 2022, Lentils — Specification, First 
edition . Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  18 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/SPS/UGA/22_4374_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements and 
methods of sampling and test for shelled whole lentils of varieties (cultivars) grown from 
Lens culinaris  Medic. Syn.  Lens esculenta  Moench. intended for human consumption.  
Note: This Draft Uganda S tandard was also notified to the TBT Committee.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a  relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Co de, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   G/SPS/N/UGA/195  
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
• Uganda Gazette  
• ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
• ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
• AOAC Official Method 999.10:1999, Determination of lead, cadmium, copper, iron and 
zinc in foods — Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after microwave digestion  
• AOAC Official Method 999.11:1999, Determination of lead, cadmium, copper, iron and 
zinc in foods — Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after dry ashing  
• AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn and 
corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
• CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contamina nts and toxins in food and 
feed 
• ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection of Salmonell a spp. 
• ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci ( Staphylococcus aureus  and other 
species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
• ISO 6888 -2, Microbiol ogy of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci ( Staphylococcus aureus  and other 
species) — Part 2: Technique using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar medium  
• ISO 6888 -3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci ( Staphylococcus aureus  and other 
species) — Part 3: Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
• ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli  — Most probable number 
technique  
• ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived produ cts — High performance 
liquid chromatographic method  
• ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in products 
with water activity less than or equa l to 0.95  
• ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
• ISO 24557, Pulses — Determination of moisture content — Air-oven method  
• EAS 760:2012, Lentils — Specification  
• CODEX STAN 171:1989 (Rev.1:1995), Standard for Certain Pulses  
• Lentils, Official Grain Grading Guide, August 1, 2012, Canadian Grain Commission  
• United States Standards for Lentils, Effective 19 December 2008  
• Ethiopian Standard, ES 17:2001, Pulses — Grading of lentils  
• Australian Pulse Standards, 2012/2013: Whole lentils — Minimum standards  
(available in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
[X] Trade facilitating measure   G/SPS/N/UGA/195  
 
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  12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 28 August 2022  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
13. Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug